All Screen articles in 25 August 2000 – Page 3
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Vivendi Universal eyes Indian content
Following the merger of Seagram, Vivendi and Canal Plus, the new entity, Vivendi Universal, plans to invest in Indian film and TV production and build up an Indian music catalogue, according to local press reports. The entertainment powerhouse will reportedly produce local-language TV programming and has already committed $7m to ...
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MGM Worldwide TV forms Latin American sales arm
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)'s TV distribution and co-production unit MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has established its first direct sales operation for the Latin American region and appointed Mary Ann Pasante to serve as vice president of Latin America Television Sales. Pasante will be based in Atlanta, Georgia, where the new branch office ...
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Fiennes joins Graham in Kaige's Killing Me Softly
Joseph Fiennes has been cast opposite Heather Graham in Chen Kaige's first English language film Killing Me Softly which is set to go into production in London on Oct 30. The film is being produced and financed by Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Pictures; MGM has domestic rights with ...
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Beast, Coffee join Toronto world premiere line-up
The Toronto International Film Festival has finalised its programme for the 25th anniversary event, announcing a further six world premieres including UK heist film Sexy Beast, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone, and Chinese Coffee directed by and starring Al Pacino.The other world premieres are:How ...
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Crouching Tiger to open San Sebastian's Top
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will open "Festivals' Top", part of this year's Zabaltegi (Open Zone) section at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30). The festival has split its traditional offering of films in Zabaltegi into two divisions: Festivals' Top, which will present features already screened at ...
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Mushroom, Screen Artists team up for Horseplay
Australia's Mushroom Pictures is working with Stavros Kazantzidis and Allanah Zitserman's production company Screen Artists on Horseplay, a darkly comic tale about a madcap plan to rig Australia's most famous annual horse race, the Melbourne Cup. Casting on the project, which Kazantzidis will direct, is underway. The feature will be ...
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Zentropa, Calyx form Danish-Scottish alliance
Denmark's Zentropa and Calyx Film Production are teaming up with Scottish production outfits Sigma Films and Antonine Films to produce a raft of features in Scotland. Scottish Screen is backing the untitled partnership. According to Calyx's Lisbeth Matz, the Danish outfits have been building relationships with the Scottish producers since ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club
Dir: Rachel Samuels. US-Ireland. 1999. 91 mins.Prod co: Concorde New Horizons Corp. Int'l sales: Concorde New Horizons Corp. Exec prod: Roger Corman. Prods: Rachel Samuels, John Brad. Scr: Lev L. Shapiro. DoP: Chris Manley. Ed: Bernadette Kelley. Mus: Adrian Johnston. Main cast: Jonathan Pryce, David Morrissey, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, ...
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UCI launches new brand of cinema in the UK
United Cinemas International (UCI) today unveiled its "next generation" brand strategy to differentiate its cinemas from other exhibitors in the highly competitive UK market. "thefilmworks" concept, created through a three-way partnership with UCI, advertising agency BDHTBWA and architects RTKL, will be rolled out first at the group's 20 screen Printworks ...
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Goteborg fest launches fund for Bosnian producers
The Goteborg Film Festival is playing a hand in rebuilding Bosnia-Herzegovina's film industry with the creation of the CineBosnia Film Fund, launched at this week's Sarajevo Film Festival (August 18-27).Unveiled by Goteborg director Gunnar Bergdahl and festival producer Magnus Telander, the fund will award $10,000 each year towards the pre-production, ...
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New UK talent shines at Edinburgh
A crop of new UK-based film-makers are emerging at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival as a string of low-budget pictures earned high praise.The find of the festival so far is Paul Pawlikowski's Last Resort, a $600,000 (£400,000) made-for-BBC TV film that world premieres at Edinburgh ahead of a Venice ...
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ProSieben shareholders approve SAT1 merger
German broadcaster ProSieben said today (August 22) that its two main shareholders - KirchMedia and retailer ReWe - have approved its merger with fellow broadcaster SAT1.KirchMedia has a 58.4% share in ProSieben while ReWe holds the remaining 41.6%. SAT1's shareholders - including KirchMedia and publisher Axel Springer - will vote ...
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Norway's Detector set for internet preview
Norwegian distributor Sandrew Metronome plans to pre-screen local production Detector, directed by Pal Jackman, on the internet this Thursday, the day before its theatrical release on Friday (August 25).Norwegian daily Dagbladet is running a competition on its web-site (www.dagbladet.no) which will enable 150 winners to stream the entire movie."Film is ...
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MPAA slams NC-17 rating on Artisan's Requiem
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream, a bold portrait of drug addiction which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has run into censorship trouble in the US where it is being released by Artisan Entertainment.The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) yesterday gave the film ...
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Carlton sells film package to China's CCTV
The UK's Carlton International has sold a package of 15 films to Chinese broadcaster CCTV6. Titles include both classic and contemporary fare and range from Boys From Brazil, Sophie's Choice and Great Expectations from Carlton's ITC library to Often Running and Night To Remember from its Rank collection and Fire ...
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Portugal's SIC inks five-year pact with Globo
Portuguese broadcaster SIC has closed a five-year deal with Brazilian media giant Globo which gives the two groups mutually exclusive rights to the other's product. As part of the deal, the two companies also plan to start co-producing feature films, made-for-TV movies and fiction series.The first co-production in development is ...
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One Life Stand
Dir: May Miles Thomas. UK. 2000. 115mins.Prod co: Elemental Films. Int'l sales: Elemental Films (+44 141 332 0375). Prod: Karen M.Smyth. Exec prod: Owen Thomas. Scr/DoP/Ed: May Miles Thomas. Prod des: Ewen Duncan. Mus: Bobby Henry. Main cast: Maureen Carr, John Kielty, Gary Lewis, Alyson Orr, Archie Lal.Having secured attention ...
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Haugesund unveils strong Nordic line-up
The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund claims to have its strongest ever line-up of Nordic features this year, including two Norwegian titles: Stein Leikanger's Odd Little Man and Hans Petter Moland's Aberdeen, a co-production with the UK.Road movie Aberdeen, starring Stellan Skarsgaard, Ian Hart and Lena Headey, screened at ...
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Hungary's Bacso to take on diva's life story
Hungarian director Peter Bacso is developing a biopic of Hungarian diva Katalin Karady, with the working title This Great Love I Was Given For You, for local production outfit Megafilm. Set during World War II in Budapest and the Ukraine, the film will revolve around singer-actress Karady, her lover and ...
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Channel 4 boards Southern Star's Secret Life
The UK's Channel 4 has boarded Australian production outfit Southern Star Entertainment's The Secret Life Of Us, marking its first pre-production commitment to a long-running Australian series. Australia's Network Ten and pay-TV entity Optus Television are also partners in the 22-hour $5.3m (A$9m) series. Southern Star describes it as "a ...
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